Why Comcast Is Buying Time Warner Cable and Other Fascinating News on the Web

The Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal

In an apparent quest to consolidate consumer frustration, Comcast has announced that it is acquiring Time Warner Cable for a cool $45 billion. As Om Malik correctly points out, this deal is less about TV and more about Internet pipes. Will the Feds approve the deal? Regulators advised that the merger is important, and will be considered in the order it was received.

Catching Some Rays

The largest solar plant in the world just went live in the Mojave Desert. “The plant consists of three 459-foot tall towers each with tens of thousands of robotic, garage-door sized mirrors that angle sunlight toward a water boiler sitting atop them”

+ A key question: Is Keystone worth the fight? Either way, it serves as a case study for how an issue can rise above the din and become a nonstop topic of political debate.

Natural Selection

“There’s going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world.” Facebook used to give members two gender choices when it came to selecting their gender. Now they have more than fifty options.

+ “As the former mayor of Fort Lee, I have some personal insight into New Jersey corruption. In 1974, I turned down a $500,000 bribe from developers linked to the mob to rezone 17 acres adjacent to the George Washington Bridge right where the access lanes were closed this past September.” The former mayor of Fort Lee is here to explain why New Jersey is so corrupt.

Grin and Bear it

You know how you’re not supposed to use fluoride toothpaste on your kids’ teeth until they’re are least two years-old? Well now you are. Ultimately, every health directive ever uttered gets reversed.

Love Hurts

“According to the industry’s trade group, some 145 million Valentine’s cards are sold in the U.S. every year. Those cards are ridiculous not just because of the sappy sayings on their covers.” In other words, Valentine’s Day is an environmental travesty.